The professional standards of school nursing practice provide a framework to help school nurses focus on their unique mission of promoting health and academic achievement for all students. Without the standards, the nurse’s role can become task oriented and limited in scope. By using an evaluation tool that reflects the standards, nurses not only…

Answers such questions as: What is an assessment center? Can one fake performance at a center? How many skills can be measured? Why are the same skills measured at most assessment centers? What should one be told before attending a center? (Author/IRT)

Outlines the development of the program of an assessment center designed for use in management and trainee development. (Author/IRT)

This report discusses the teacher evaluation program in the Andover Public Schools, Massachusetts. The bulk of the document is made up of the two forms used to conduct teacher evaluation: a performance standards and rating scale (appendix B), by which all staff are appraised; and an instructional improvement plan (appendix C), which provides for…

This report entails background information and a proposed model for assessment of personnel responsible for curriculum development and management in Vocational-Technical education in Alabama (the result of a state/federal-funded project entitled "Vocational Education Curriculum Operation--Management Plan" or VO-ED COMP). Four approaches…

This paper describes the formation of the Southern Extension Leadership Development (SELD) program. The program was developed in response to the growing need for understanding and coping with the many changes currently and potentially affecting Cooperative Extension Systems (CES). Two of the biggest changes affecting CES are the changing nature of…

Performance review, as used in one school district, is a disciplined communication process that relies heavily on interviews. In this process people in the organization cooperatively express their hopes and aspirations for a stated period and rationalize them within the context of the overall goals of the corporation. Available from Pergamon Press…

Supervision is the hardest task facing administrators. The articulation of meaningful goals and objectives, as well as careful evaluation of employee performance remain challenging tasks. At Pensacola Junior College, this task was made easier through the development of a more bias-free and objective evaluation form. The form is appended. (MLW)

This paper briefly reviews the higher education literature on nonacademic staff evaluation, followed by a description of the development of process of staff performance appraisal being implemented at Atlantic Baptist College (New Brunswick, Canada). Steps in the development process are outlined starting with the writing of a report on compensation…

The last of a three-part series, this article explains how behaviorally anchored rating scales, an appraisal system, can be integrated with management by objectives. A diagnostic technique for identifying performance problems using the integrated approach is explained. Forms required for the integration are provided. (Author/IRT)

The Texas Metro Network (TMN) is an informal group of Head Start Directors and Executive Directors organized for the purposes of improving the delivery of training and technical assistance and for assisting communication between large scale Head Start programs in the metropolitan areas of Texas. In pursuit of these aims, each member unit of the…

An automated candidate-job matching system called "Jobmatch" has been implemented at Citibank, in New York City, involving job analysis, performance appraisal techniques, clerical employment, and internal mobility. A job task scale is used by supervisor and employee to determine job and candidate matching through a series of computer…

The staff performance evaluation program of McGill University Libraries is based on a hierarchy of objectives in which individual and unit goals are compatible with department, area library, and overall library system goals. Individual goals and performance standards are formulated jointly by the staff member and his or her supervisor according to…

This booklet describes a research program that developed eight Educational Leadership Appraisal (ELA) exercises specifically relevant to the roles of middle-management personnel in state education agencies (SEAs). ELA is a performance-based procedure for the observation, assessment, and training of leadership behavior in educational managers and…

Reports on the use of applied behavioral science techniques to develop a performance appraisal instrument and system in a mental health organization. The system integrates individual, professional, and institutional values into an overall framework including parts of the organization in conflict. (Author/WAS)